Manufacturing ERP Advisor
Four decades on the manufacturing floor, translated into ERP that fits the shop instead of fighting it.
Lee Stout started as a mechanic and a parts counter, moved through planning, master scheduling, materials management, and configuration control, then spent eleven years implementing and architecting ERP. He reads a shop floor before he reads a spec sheet — which is why the systems he guides into place survive the go-live and the three months of drift that follow it.
Straight shooter. Calm in the chaos. A partner, not a vendor. He has seen this movie before — at manufacturers like Cymer, where he cut sixteen weeks out of the new-product development cycle, and Hologic, where the stakes of getting the system right were measured in shipped product.
Founded 2014 as Lee Stout Consulting · rebranded Staudt Advisory in 2025 to formalize executive-level ERP and business systems advisory.
Selection, implementation, and the operational reality after go-live — for mid-market manufacturers who want the decision made right the first time.